TO vs yorks, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“TO” is an abbrev and “yorks” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#589
“TO” frequency rank: #37,319
“yorks” frequency rank: 37908
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	TO	yorks
Definition	KFZ-Kennzeichen für Torino (Turin)	3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs york

Letter map: TO vs yorks

Shared letters muted; letters that set TO and yorks apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

2 ch

5 ch

yorks

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: TO is anabbrev and yorksaverb. On the page they differ by 3 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37908, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

TO is recorded at frequency rank #589, classified as anabbrev, pronounced […]. yorks is at rank #37,319, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 37908, this pair ranks #1,577,937 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of TO vs yorks

Shared letters: o. Private to "TO": t. Private to "yorks": krsy.

"TO" · 2 letters · shape CV · "yorks" · 5 letters · shape VVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

yorks ← oyrks · yokrs · yorkks · yorkss · yorrks · yorsk · yroks · yyorks

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "TO" and "yorks" be used interchangeably?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "TO" is an abbrev and "yorks" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Which is more common, "TO" or "yorks"?

"TO" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #589 in our German list, against #37,319 for "yorks". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "TO" and "yorks". Here's where to go from here.

Full dictionary entry for "TO" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "yorks" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,577,937 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"TO" and "yorks" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs yorks". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.